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    Grass blockage??

    How is she now?
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    Hen making strange noise.

    I have 2 hens from a free range flock of 24 hens making this noise. Any advice please, Is it possible to attach a video?? I can’t see how to do it?
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    2nd hen with leg paralysis. Help please.

    They have access to layers pellets and water 24/7 and they are free range. When they come in I give them some scrambled egg to get them to start to eat ....then back onto their usual food.
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    2nd hen with leg paralysis. Help please.

    Thankyou for your reply. How did you find out it was Botulsim....? Do you know where it came from.... And how did you treat it?? Did they all get it? Were they like my hens....looking like they were dying...then recovery....then again about a month later?
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    2nd hen with leg paralysis. Help please.

    It’s now 10pm here ....and hen is looking much brighter. She is eating and drinking.She now has her legs underneath her...and feet are uncurled. This is exactly the same that happened with the other hen....who is back outside running around again. It’s been fantastic having your advice...and...
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    2nd hen with leg paralysis. Help please.

    Thankyou for your help. I’ll do some research on botulism too.
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    2nd hen with leg paralysis. Help please.

    Thankyou....I’m in Ireland.
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    2nd hen with leg paralysis. Help please.

    Thankyou so much for your reply! We live in Ireland...and have been feeding layers pellets and separate oyster shell. Also rolled oats as a treat when they get called in at night. Will check her crop in the morning to see if it’s emptied. Will get the vitamins tomorrow. Thankyou.
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    2nd hen with leg paralysis. Help please.

    Thankyou for your help. I’m in Ireland...😖
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    2nd hen with leg paralysis. Help please.

    Thankyou for your quick reply....I’m off to read about Mareks disease...😖
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    2nd hen with leg paralysis. Help please.

    Hi. We have hens that are 7 months old. We got 30 when they were point of lay. They are free range and happy/healthy....BUT we have one that we found in the hen house one morning looking like she had had a stroke. Her legs were splayed out behind her with her feet all clamped up in a ball. We...
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    How do I start free ranging?

    Before letting mine free range I make sure that they know that when I call them they will get treats...I use oats. I call them several times a day and treat. I only let them out freeranging if I know they will all come immediately when I call them. Yes..they fly over their fence, but it's not...
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    Brain damaged hen??

    Using a Motorola phone?
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    Brain damaged hen??

    Thanks for yr reply! Is it complicated to post a video?? Anyone able to give instructions for a techno phobic granny??
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    Neighbor's Dogs Killed 18 Chickens

    OP...please let us know what the results from court were!
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